EU legislators shun Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
The decision to not invite Nobel winner to human rights prize ceremony is a protest over genocide in her country
10 September 2020 - 16:31
Brussels — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will no longer be invited to events of the European Parliament’s human rights prize, which she won in 1990, EU legislators said on Thursday, a protest over accusations of genocide in her country.
Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner of Myanmar’s then ruling military junta in the 1990s who now rules as state counsellor, was awarded the parliament’s Sakharov Prize in 1990...
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